Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Ryde Cemetery

Mrs Mary Harding

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Mary
Surnames: Harding
Date of Death: 27/03/1886
Age at Death Months: -1
Age at Death Years: 50
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 033 B1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section D Plot 517
Grave Description: Large Celtic cross raised up on a large square base, stone kerbs and grass top.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Inscription very shallow and difficult to read. In danger of becoming overgrown with brambles.
Other Information: All available newspapers searched, but no obituaries found.
Old Website Grave ID: 6997

Inscription:

(in centre of cross, surrounded by a circle also inscribed but unable to decipher words)
IHS

MARY
WIFE OF W. J. HARDING
OF ASHEY HOUSE, RYDE
GOD'S FINGER TOUCHED HER AND SHE SLEPT
MARCH 27 1886
GOODNIGHT BELOVED
TILL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
GOOD NIGHT GOOD NIGHT
HER CHILDREN CALL HER BLESSED.

At bottom of cross
MH

Photographs:

David Earle
M Harding (15,08.2009)
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
M Harding (15,08.2009)
Photographer: David Earle

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